Designing Audio Experiences: Art, Science and Production MA

UCL (University College London)

This MA aims to develop a novel type of professional – the scientifically informed, creative, audio designer. There is currently a lack of personnel with this interdisciplinary profile in the emerging sound industries. You will build your skills in a environment where you have regular contact with leading practitioners, culminating in a graduate project mentored by industry professionals. This practice-based MA will create highly trained individuals who understand how humans make sense of the world through sound and can apply that knowledge, along with specialist technical spatial audio skills, to create compelling, convincing audio experiences for diverse audiences and contexts. This degree will explore many aspects of sound, including its propagation and perception (sound in mechanical and psychoacoustic terms), the role it plays in human development (within a lifetime and across cultures), audio storytelling techniques (critically engaging with different media forms), soundscape composition and sonic anthropology, aesthetic principles of sound from stereo to future formats, virtual and real sonic spaces, accessibility in audio experiences, sound for moving image, sound in dynamic and experimental experiences, and sound in material environments (considering architecture, different venues and impact on wellness).